Asexual cephalosporin C producer Acremonium chrysogenum carries a functional mating type locus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6006-6016

  Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a   Hoff, Birgit ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ACREMONIUM; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ENCODING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FRUITING BODIES; GROUP DOMAINS; KEY REGULATORS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; RESPONSE PATHWAYS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL REPRODUCTIONS; TRANSFORMANTS;

GENE ENCODING;

CEPHALOSPORIN C; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PROLINE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTICS; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; PHEROMONE; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

ARTICLE; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAT1 1 1 GENE; MAT1 1 2 GENE; MAT1 1 3 GENE; MATING TYPE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; REPRODUCTION; ACREMONIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PODOSPORA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; ASCOMYCOTA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

ACREMONIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ORDER; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PODOSPORA; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 54449085354     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01188-08     Document Type: Article

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